[olug] kill process question

[Daniel Linder]

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On Fri, August 26, 2005 09:31, Craig Wolf wrote:

> I am running a script in a terminal window and want to kill the
window

> when the script finishes.  I know that I am close but the command
looks

> ugly...any suggestions?? (I know nothing about awk...but willing to

> learn.  8)

> 

> ps aux |grep Terminal |killall -9 {awk $2}

> 

> If I am way off base, I am looking for ANY and ALL help.  I am in

> crunch time to have this done by tomorrow...



How about this:

ps aux | grep Terminal | awk '{ print "kill -9 " $2 '} | sh



If you remove the final "| sh", this script will show the full
kill commands it would run.  The |sh executes them for you.



Dan



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